Page Turners book for April is The Library Book by Susan Orlean. This is a novel about the disastrous 1986 fire in the Los Angeles Central Library that destroyed or damaged more than a million books. In anticipation of our club reading this book, we had scheduled a docent guided tour of the L.A. Central Library for the group on … [Read more...]

During the month of March, the Page Turners Book Club will be reading Barbara Kingsolver’s newest novel Unsheltered. This “is a compulsively readable story of two families, in two [different] centuries . . . navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it . . .” (Harper Collins). Kingsolver gives readers plenty to think about in … [Read more...]

Page Turners are looking forward to reading another novel by author Lisa See. Last year we read The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, and following that we had the privilege of interviewing Lisa See via Skype. She gave us a whole hour of her time in which we asked questions regarding that book, and she gave us a little insight to this month’s … [Read more...]

January finds both Page Turners groups settling in to our familiar routine of meeting monthly to discuss one of the ten books chosen last spring by the members. Our selection this month is A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. The following are author Stephen King’s comments on this book: “John Irving, who writes novels in the … [Read more...]

Page Turners’ meeting year runs from September through June and we read a book each month with the exception being December. So far this year we have read three vastly differ- ent novels, namely Where the Crawdads Sing (American author), A Ladder to the Sky (Irish author), and Bear Town (Swedish author). Each of these works has produced lively and … [Read more...]

Page Turners’ November book is Beartown by Frederick Backman. Backman will be familiar to many as the author of his highly successful earlier novel, A Man Called Ove. Beartown, according to the publisher, is “a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true.” Publishers Weekly states, “It’s … [Read more...]

Both Page Turners groups are back to their season of afternoon discussion meetings, held on the fourth Monday and fourth Thursday of each month. Our October selection is A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne. Boyne is an Irish author who has written a number of adult and young adult novels. He is best known for his young adult novel The Boy in … [Read more...]

CORRECTION: Page Turners Monday and Thursday groups meet in the afternoon on the FOURTH Thursday of the month. Page Turners resumes their monthly book discussion meetings this month. The September book, Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, has been very popular for the past several months and I have heard from a number of members … [Read more...]

PAGE TURNERS Both the Monday and Thursday afternoon groups of Page Turners gathered in the Clubhouse on June 20 for their bi-annual joint meeting. This is always a fun meeting with socializing, book discussion and a “blind book exchange.” Most importantly, the next season’s reading list was disclosed. This list was created from results of the … [Read more...]

In June and December, Page Turners hold joint meetings of the Monday and Thursday afternoon groups. We will be meeting Thursday, June 20 at 1:00 p.m. in the Clubhouse. This is always a fun-filled meeting as we get to discuss the books we have read over the past year and also discover the results of our voting for the books we will be reading in the … [Read more...]